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Eunoia
Christian Bok
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Description for Eunoia
Paperback. A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere.. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 86. 112 pages. A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight: 80.
'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is lyrical, O is jocular, U is obscene. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, Eunoia is as playful as it is awe-inspiring.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847672445
SKU
V9781847672445
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-87
About Christian Bok
Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopaedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He lives in Toronto.
Reviews for Eunoia
Christian Bok's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.
The Times
Extraordinary, outrageous, irresistible - a must for verbivores.
Gyles Brandreth A book that is easy, and pleasurable, to read. Eunoia is characterized not by obvious sweat and strain, but by playfulness, fluidity and self-conscious wit . . . At other times, the rhythms bounce and tumble, creating an impression of haste despite the meticulousness and graft of the book's composition . . .The book's freshest insights pertain to the resilience and manipulability of language.
Irish Times
No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel . . . playful and irreverent . . . charming.
Metro
Amazing . . . impressive . . . It's beautiful, it's funny and it's moving.
Globe and Mail
Brilliant . . . beautiful and strange.
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 Interview
This writing is brill nihilism.. this little book is an extraordinary exercise in crooked spelling.
Philip Howard
Guardian
Rhyme and repetition create an intoxicating array of images and allusion . . . The close attention to sentence construction creates a refreshing poetry, where the manipulation of single letters is used to elicit startling beauty. Bok has produced an ode to the alphabet, where the power of vowels, verbs and alliteration is inspiring.
Nathan Dunne
Daily Telegraph
The Times
Extraordinary, outrageous, irresistible - a must for verbivores.
Gyles Brandreth A book that is easy, and pleasurable, to read. Eunoia is characterized not by obvious sweat and strain, but by playfulness, fluidity and self-conscious wit . . . At other times, the rhythms bounce and tumble, creating an impression of haste despite the meticulousness and graft of the book's composition . . .The book's freshest insights pertain to the resilience and manipulability of language.
Irish Times
No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel . . . playful and irreverent . . . charming.
Metro
Amazing . . . impressive . . . It's beautiful, it's funny and it's moving.
Globe and Mail
Brilliant . . . beautiful and strange.
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 Interview
This writing is brill nihilism.. this little book is an extraordinary exercise in crooked spelling.
Philip Howard
Guardian
Rhyme and repetition create an intoxicating array of images and allusion . . . The close attention to sentence construction creates a refreshing poetry, where the manipulation of single letters is used to elicit startling beauty. Bok has produced an ode to the alphabet, where the power of vowels, verbs and alliteration is inspiring.
Nathan Dunne
Daily Telegraph